James J. Griffin

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  • Bibliography:
    55 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2005
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Detective Paul Talbot Mystery

1 - Murder Among the Clouds (Feb-2016)
2 - Death by Dressage (Jun-2016)

A Jim Blawcyzk Texas Ranger Story

4 - Border Raiders (May-2005)
5 - Trail of the Renegade (Sep-2005)
6 - Ranger Justice (Jul-2006)
7 - Panhandle Raiders (May-2007)
8 - Bullet for a Ranger (Feb-2012)
9 - Renegade Ranger (Feb-2012)
10 - Ranger's Revenge (Mar-2013)
11 - Texas Jeopardy (Sep-2017)

Lone Star Ranger

1 - A Ranger to Ride with (Apr-2014)
2 - A Ranger to Reckon with (Jul-2014)
3 - A Ranger to Fight with (Sep-2014)
4 - A Ranger's Christmas (Dec-2014)
5 - A Ranger to Stand with (Apr-2015)
6 - A Ranger Gone Bad (Sep-2015)
7 - A Ranger Redeemed (Apr-2016)
8 - A Ranger Grown (Sep-2016)

A Ranger Named Rowdy - A Texas Ranger Tim Bannon

1 - A Ranger Named Rowdy (Apr-2014)
2 - Old Enemies (May-2013)
3 - Kidnapped (Jun-2013)
4 - Jack Bosco (Jul-2013)
5 - The Norther (Jul-2013)
6 - Banker's Gamble (Sep-2013)
7 - Always A Ranger (Oct-2013)
8 - Deadly Duo (Dec-2013)
9 - Defenders of The Mission (Dec-2013)
10 - Like Father, Like Son (Dec-2013)
11 - The Blizzard (Feb-2014)

Book List in Order: 55 titles

  • Trouble Rides The Texas Pacific

    Texas Ranger Jim Blawcyzk is riding the El Paso Limited en route to a routine assignment...until the train is wrecked and robbed. Barely escaping the flaming wreckage of the train, Blawcyzk sets out to track down the outlaws responsible for such want...

  • Border Raiders

    A Jim Blawcyzk Texas Ranger Story - 4

    Comanches and rustlers are wreaking havoc on the settlers of the Nueces Strip the Texas no-man's land between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. Texas Ranger Lieutenant Jim Blawcyzk is assigned to a company of Rangers with orders to bring the reneg...

  • Trail of the Renegade

    A Jim Blawcyzk Texas Ranger Story - 5

    Texas Ranger Lieutenant Jim Blawcyzk is hunting for outlaw Ned Scanlon. In order to track down the wily renegade, Blawcyzk will not only have to use all of his skills as a lawman, but will also have to confront the ghosts of his own past.

    "Trail o...

  • Ranger Justice

    A Jim Blawcyzk Texas Ranger Story - 6

    Texas Ranger Lieutenant Jim Blawcyzk is on the trail of the men responsible for the killing of a fellow Ranger and the disappearance of another. Jim's search will draw him into a web of deception, greed, and murder, where even a lawman's best friend ...

  • Panhandle Raiders

    A Jim Blawcyzk Texas Ranger Story - 7

    Nobody writes Westerns with more heart and soul than James J. Griffin. Guaranteed enjoyment for any Western fan!James Reasoner, author of TEXAS WIND and THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE SERIES."Jim Griffin brings to life fictional characters interspersed with re...

  • Big Bend Death Trap

    Cody Havlicek, Texas Ranger, is a moral man. He is totally dedicated to enforcing the law and will do whatever it takes to bring wrongdoers to justice. When a series of murders, including that of a fellow Ranger, takes place in the Big Bend region,...

  • Death Stalks the Rangers

    Texas Ranger Sean Kennedy is preparing to feed his troop's horses their morning rations when he spies an approaching horse. As the animal draws nearer, he recognizes the mount as belonging to fellow Ranger Thad Dutton. Dutton's body is hanging from t...

  • Bullet for a Ranger

    A Jim Blawcyzk Texas Ranger Story - 8

    In Bullet for a Ranger, the latest novel in the Texas Ranger Jim Blawcyzk series, Jim is locked in a jail cell in the town of Quitaque, accused of murdering a saloon woman while in a drunken rage. Even though the idea of the happily married, loyal fa...

  • Renegade Ranger

    A Jim Blawcyzk Texas Ranger Story - 9

    Texas Ranger Lieutenant Jim Blawcyzk is on his way to the easiest assignment he's had in a long time... until a fellow Ranger, a man Jim trusted as a friend and partner, murders their commanding officer and puts two bullets into Jim. Now, with Jim ly...



  • Fight for Freedom

    Fight for Freedom is a story of determination, passion, loss, betrayal, and ultimate triumph. Take a wagon train of former slaves and freemen heading to start a new life in west Texas, add some men determined to keep them from reaching their destinat...

  • Death Rides the Rails

    Texas Ranger Jim Blawcyzk is riding the El Paso Limited en route to a routine assignment... until the train is wrecked and robbed. Barely escaping the flaming wreckage, Blawcyzk sets out to track down the outlaws responsible for such wanton death and...

  • Ranger's Revenge

    A Jim Blawcyzk Texas Ranger Story - 10

    James J. Griffin brings back Texas Ranger Jim Blawcyzk in this book. Blawcyzk isn’t really working for the Texas Rangers this time, though. In fact, he winds up on the wrong side of the law with the Rangers after him for part of the book, because h...

  • Old Enemies

    A Ranger Named Rowdy - A Texas Ranger Tim Bannon - 2

    Texas Ranger Tim Bannon returns home to find he has a new neighbor, who has already befriended Tim's wife and son. When the new arrival pays a visit, he turns out to be Cal Jellico, a man Tim had arrested for cattle rustling. Jellico claims his past...

  • Kidnapped

    A Ranger Named Rowdy - A Texas Ranger Tim Bannon - 3

    Texas Ranger Tim Bannon makes a detour on his way home to visit an old friend, Sheriff Dave Owens, in Alice, and to get in a bit of fishing. Instead, he and the sheriff discover Deputy Hank Plunkett missing, and a ransom note left on his desk. The my...

  • Jack Bosco

    A Ranger Named Rowdy - A Texas Ranger Tim Bannon - 4

    Texas Ranger Tim Bannon is up against one of the most difficult manhunts he's ever faced. He's on the trail of Jack Bosco, an escaped murderer. Bosco has already eluded Tim once, by putting a bullet into him. Tim's life was saved by a ranch family, w...

  • The Norther

    A Ranger Named Rowdy - A Texas Ranger Tim Bannon - 5

    The Norther takes us back to when Tim Bannon is a young Ranger. He and his partner Stan Dolan track down a gang of rustlers. In the ensuing gunbattle, Stan and all of the rustlers are killed. Tim buries Stan, then starts back, attempting to outride a...

  • West of the Big River: The Ranger

    Acclaimed author James J. Griffin, noted for his fine stories of the Texas Rangers, joins the West of the Big River stable with THE RANGER, a short novel featuring real-life Ranger Sergeant J.S. Turnbo. Tangling with rustlers, bank robbers, and road ...

  • Banker's Gamble

    A Ranger Named Rowdy - A Texas Ranger Tim Bannon - 6

    Tim Bannon is en route to the town of Rankin, where the bank has been robbed and the town marshal killed. Still a day's ride from town, he stops for the night at a pond. While taking a swim, he is accosted by a gunman who tries to kill him. After a f...

  • Always A Ranger

    A Ranger Named Rowdy - A Texas Ranger Tim Bannon - 7

    The saga continues...“That blasted Ranger’s still doggin’ our tracks, Dan,” my partner Ed Thornton informed me, after checking our back trail. “We haven’t been able to shake him.”“Well then, I guess we’d better do somethin’ about ...



  • Deadly Duo

    A Ranger Named Rowdy - A Texas Ranger Tim Bannon - 8

    When two easygoing young cowboys, best friends who are liked by everyone, suddenly start killing for no good reason, one of their victims is a Texas Ranger on their trail. With the death of that Ranger, Tim Bannon is assigned to the case. He not only...

  • Defenders of The Mission

    A Ranger Named Rowdy - A Texas Ranger Tim Bannon - 9

    A desperately ill Ranger Tim Bannon is on the trail of a notorious killer named Chuck Morrell. When he becomes too sick to continue, he finds shelter at the Mission of Santa Clara. However, when a gang of ruthless outlaws raids the mission, Tim finds...

  • Like Father, Like Son

    A Ranger Named Rowdy - A Texas Ranger Tim Bannon - 10

    Texas Ranger Tim Bannon has a few precious days at home. He is spending one of them fishing with Billy, his son. However, their peaceful day is interrupted when neighbor Clyde Jellicoe arrives with the news he has spotted a band of rustlers. Tim send...

  • The Texas Trail

    When Wells Fargo stage runs in central and west Texas are targeted by outlaws, Remington Holt and Amos Dewery are assigned to track down the thieves. They also must discover whether the robbers are part of the organization attempting to bring down th...

  • The Blizzard

    A Ranger Named Rowdy - A Texas Ranger Tim Bannon - 11

    Tim Bannon and a young Ranger, Tate Slocum, are sent to Sierra Blanca just before Christmas to stop a budding range war before it starts. Before their assignment is completed, they will find out a range war is the least of their problems. On their wa...

  • A Ranger Named Rowdy

    A Ranger Named Rowdy - A Texas Ranger Tim Bannon - 1

    Texas Ranger Tim Bannon has been assigned to track down a gang of vicious outlaws who have been robbing and murdering all over south-central Texas. However, he has a problem. His old horse is no longer up to the task of traveling for days on end chas...

  • A Ranger to Ride with

    Lone Star Ranger - 1

    Nathaniel Stewart’s life changes in the blink of an eye when his family is murdered by a band of marauding raiders. They’ve made one terrible mistake…they didn’t finish the job. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel is very much alive and ready to exac...

  • A Ranger to Reckon with

    Lone Star Ranger - 2

    As the youngest man in the company of Texas Rangers he’s riding with, Nate Stewart discovers he’s got a lot to learn. Determined to find the brutal gang of raiders who murdered his family and left him for dead on the Texas plains, Nate must grow ...

  • A Ranger to Fight with

    Lone Star Ranger - 3

    When Captain Quincy's company of Rangers is ordered to the Big Bend, Nate has no choice but to ride with them. It appears his odds of finding the men who murdered his family grow more distant with each passing mile. But a chance encounter with a patr...

  • A Ranger's Christmas

    Lone Star Ranger - 4

    Nate Stewart has avenged the deaths of his family by seeing their pale-eyed murderer dead. But his days of being a Texas Ranger have only just begun. With Christmas on the way, and the Rangers sent to the Big Bend area to patrol, they’re faced with...



  • The Ghost Riders

    Striking ruthlessly out of the night, the Ghost Riders are the most brutal band of outlaws ever to plague Texas. Leaving death and devastation behind them, they raid town after town, slaughtering, looting, and burning. Dressed in white robes that con...

  • A Ranger to Stand with

    Lone Star Ranger - 5

    Texas Ranger Nate Stewart has been through a lot in his life -- and his losses aren’t over yet. In the months that Nate has ridden with Captain Quincy and his Rangers, his best friend and pardner, Hoot Harrison, has been the rock Nate has depended ...

  • The Mad Man of the Mountains

    Again and again, bodies are discovered near the summits of some of New Hampshire's most picturesque mountains, brutally murdered by an ingenious serial killer who moves around this scenic wilderness like a deadly phantom. With few if any clues to go ...

  • Renewal of Faith

    Jake Holmes, a young Kansas cowboy, is forced to face down and kill his best friend, Tom Claiborne, in a showdown after a drunken Tom guns down a deputy marshal who is attempting to arrest him. After Tom's funeral, a disillusioned Jake leaves town...

  • To Avenge a Ranger

    A legendary lawman lies dead, cut down by a bushwhacker's bullet, and it's up to Texas Ranger Sean Kennedy to track down the killer and bring him to justice. But at every step in his search, Kennedy finds that the trail to the truth leads farther and...

  • A Ranger Gone Bad

    Lone Star Ranger - 6

    Cattle rustling is about to get the best of some of the finest ranches in Texas -- until the Rangers come to call. But while Nate, Hoot, and the rest of Captain Quincy’s Texas Rangers are out to arrest the outlaws, things take an unexpected turn fo...

  • Western Roundup

    7 Incredible stories by seven amazing authors are available to you in this wonderful ebook bundle!Get the first story in each one of their award-winning and best-selling series: James J. Griffin, Big Jim Williams,Clay More,Jerry Guin,Murray Pura,Will...

  • Murder Among the Clouds

    A Detective Paul Talbot Mystery - 1

    Again and again, bodies are discovered near the summits of some of New Hampshire's most picturesque mountains, brutally murdered by an ingenious serial killer who moves around this scenic wilderness like a deadly phantom. With few if any clues to go ...

  • A Ranger Redeemed

    Lone Star Ranger - 7

    The company of Texas Rangers led by Cap’n Dave has come down with influenza. Once the outlaws in the area realize the Rangers are temporarily out of commission, they have a field day -- especially a gang of bold train robbers! Nate and Hoot, along ...

  • Death by Dressage

    A Detective Paul Talbot Mystery - 2

    New Hampshire State Police detective Paul Talbot returns for another spine-tingling murder mystery. Someone is killing many of the top dressage riders on the horse show circuit. This time, though, the murders hit too close to home when his wife Jacqu...



  • A Ranger Grown

    Lone Star Ranger - 8

    With renegade Apaches and deadly gangs of outlaws running rampant in the Texas badlands, Texas Ranger Captain Quincy has no choice but to divide his band of Rangers and take on some new recruits. This mission is the most dangerous yet for Nate Stewar...

  • Blood Ties

    Texas Ranger Will Kirkpatrick brings a young outlaw, Jonas Peterson, in for trial in Pecos, Texas. But Will finds the tables have turned on him when the judge entrusts Peterson to Will’s care for a year rather than sending the youngster to Huntsvil...

  • Texas Jeopardy

    A Jim Blawcyzk Texas Ranger Story - 11

    Texas Ranger Jim Blawcyzk lands in hot water when he kills a drug dealer in a shoot-out between the Rangers and a gang of modern day outlaws deep in the heart of Texas. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg as he uncovers the criminal connection b...

  • A Ranger Returns

    Nate Stewart and his Texas Ranger partners return to Austin from their grueling assignment in west Texas, expecting only a few days’ rest before they are sent back on the outlaw trail. Instead, they learn that the state legislature has refused to e...

  • The Zombies of Zapata

    Someone, or something, is killing people in the rural areas of counties north and west of Austin. Brains are being removed, and bodies mutilated. The few witnesses, including a deputy sheriff, who encountered the killers and survived insist they are ...

  • DEPUTY PETE AND THE PURLOINED PICKLES PUZZLE

    The annual Winchester Pickle Festival has been canceled. All the pickles and cucumbers have been stolen and everyone is sad, especially nine-year-old Libby and her younger brother Ben. When there doesn't seem to be any hope left for holding the event...

  • RIDE FOR REDEMPTION

    Cody Havlicek is back on the trail in another spellbinding Texas Ranger adventure. Once again, he says goodbye to his wife and children and heads out on a desperate journey to uphold the law and investigate crime. In RIDE FOR REDEMPTION: A Texas ...

  • Ride for Justice, Ride for Revenge

  • Change of Venue

    Sixth generation Texas Ranger James C. Blawcyzk has ruffled the feathers of his superiors at Company F one time too many. He's offered a choice: Either transfer to Company E, and an isolated post in far west Texas, resign, or be terminated.Knowing he...

  • A Ranger At Peace

    Texas Ranger Lieutenant Nate Stewart has been promoted and is now the commander of Texas Ranger Special Company G. His company has been given the formidable task of cleaning up Tascosa and the far northern reaches of the Texas Panhandle-a hotbed of c...



  • Trouble Times Two

  • Desperate Ride

  • Death Comes to Lajitas

  • Catch a Falling Star

  • Tall Trouble in Terlingua

    Texas Ranger Luke Caldwell and his young partner, Bobby Howell, have destroyed the outlaw gang that was preying on visitors to Lajitas, deep in the Big Bend country of Texas. However, that's not the end of their problems, it's just the beginning. Wit...

  • DEPUTY PETE and the MISSING MUFFIN

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Meet the young Deputy Sheriff who solves the mystery of the missing Muffin. Deputy Pete is at the blacksmith's shop having new horseshoes put on Charcoal, his big black horse. Pete's dog, Pepper, is with him. Pete thanks the blacksmith and rides into...

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James J. Griffin has published 55 books.

The next book by James J. Griffin, Tall Trouble in Terlingua, will be published in June 2024.

The first book by James J. Griffin, Trouble Rides The Texas Pacific, was published in February 2005.

Yes. James J. Griffin has 4 series.
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